The New York Times Is Inflaming Racial Tensions
by Alexander Zubatov
This is the what the front page of The New York Times online looked like a bit earlier today. On the right is a column attacking Trump’s white “identity politics.” In an irony that must be missed on The New York Times’ editors, however, on the left is a big headline story engaging in anti-white identity politics and further inflaming racial tensions.
The story beneath the headline does no more than count heads by race at various universities across time. It does not identify any actual discrimination, at least not with any specificity of a sort that could be taken seriously. Here is the article’s key paragraph on this front:
Affirmative action increases the numbers of black and Hispanic students at many colleges and universities, but experts say that persistent underrepresentation often stems from equity issues that begin earlier.
“Experts say” and “equity issues that begin earlier” are, of course, vague weasel words that leave everything of interest entirely unsaid, and the real story here is that after decades of giving blacks and Hispanics a blatant leg up in the university admissions process and alienating most non-elite whites in the process, the gains by these groups in the bottom-line category of university attendance have been minimal or non-existent. This should tell us that the true underlying issues are not being dealt with through destructive and disgraceful affirmative action policies, and issue #1, as I’ve been preaching tirelessly to anyone who will listen, is the reality of black poverty and black separation from the rest of society. When that issue is addressed, all the other dominoes, including the big domino of anti-black racism, will quickly fall into place. But playing the game of identity politics game is the exact opposite of what we need to be doing to address the problem of black poverty, because the more poor whites see poor blacks as fundamentally different from themselves, the less likely they are to be willing to unite with poor blacks in causes or even in political parties dedicated to opposing the neoliberal and neoconservative orthodoxy of crony capitalism (represented by the likes of Hillary Clinton, George W. Bush, Barrack Obama, John McCain, Mitt Romney and the rest of the traditional big-money politicos) that enriches big corporations at the expense of ordinary citizens of all races.
In running headlines and articles like this, in other words, The New York Times is further rousing minorities into fits of race-based rage about “under-representation” (which, of course, they are invited to assume is due to white racism), even as, in the headline on the right, The New York Times is blaming whites for their identity politics, the very same identity politics that those whites are being increasingly pushed towards as a direct result of the rise of identity politics on the mainstream left, as I’ve demonstrated here.
The hypocrisy here is beyond belief. And it is likewise beyond belief that this “paper of record” that was all over President Trump for sowing division in his remarks on Charlottesville is hard at work creating the cultural climate that leads directly to events like Charlottesville and insures both minority identity politics and white identity politics will be with us for many years in the future, until they spark still more horrific conflagrations.
I’ll say this as clearly as I can: The New York Times and its like are egging on the regressive left and leading us directly towards a race war. Responsible people, both on the real (traditional progressive) left and on the real right, people who judge others as individuals rather than as members of racial groups, need to speak out in droves against this kind of divisiveness and tune out and denounce the Big Media machine that continues to inflame racial tensions through sensationalistic clickbait headlines feeding its bottom line.
